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NEW  YORK:  1 

Printed  at  the  National  Headquarters  of  the  Salvation  Army, 
120=124  West  14th  Street. 

1897» 


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Untvobuctton. 


*"p  lias  often  appeared  to  us  desirable  to  preserve  in  a  per¬ 
manent  form  the  many  warm  expressions  of  appreciation 
of  our  work  which  have  fallen  from  persons  occupying 
public  and  leading  positions,  and  who  are  enabled  to 
form  an  enlightened  opinion  with  regard  to  the  Army. 

But  in  setting  about  the  task  our  great  difficulty  has  been  that 
of  compressing  into  any  readable  bulk  even  a  small  selection  from 
such  eulogies  as  have  been  passed  upon  us  in  writing,  or  have  been 
verbally  reported  when  spoken.  In  issuing  the  following  extracts 
we  must,  therefore,  disclaim  any  intention  to  slight  any  of  the 
friends  who  may  not  be  mentioned,  or  to  undervalue  the  eloquent 
addresses  from  which  the  limits  of  space  compel  us  to  take  only  an 
odd  sentence  or  two. 

We  issue  the  pamphlet  in  the  hope  that  it  may  gain  for  us  the 
attention  of  persons  who  have  hitherto  been  hindered  from  regard¬ 
ing  our  operations  as  worthy  of  their  notice.  Surely  it  cannot  be 
necessary  for  us  to  say  that  we  neither  labor  for  human  applause, 
nor  desire  to  fill  up  a  printed  monument  to  our  own  glory.  But 
seeing  so  constantly  around  us  multitudes  who  remain  in  wretch¬ 
edness  unlielped,  and  desiring  that  our  opportunity  to  assist  them 
should  be  increased  in  some  proportion  to  the  vastness  of  their  need, 
we  wish  to  use  the  kindly  commendations  of  our  past  doings  to  gain 
for  us  the  means  to  accomplish  very  much  more  in  the  future. 


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me  Worn  e!  me 

and  fIM. 


PRESIDENT  McKINLEY,  when  Governor  of  the  State  of  Ohio,  wrote  as  follows: 

Columbus,  November  27,  1895. 

Brigadier  William  J.  Cozens,  Cincinnati,  O. : 

My  Dear  Sir:  Upon  my  return  to  Columbus  I  find  yours  of  the  22d  inst., 
enclosing  statement  concerning  the  Salvation  Army. 

It  is  a  pleasure  for  me  to  commend  the  work  of  this  organization.  My  obser¬ 
vation  is  that  the  Salvation  Army  has  earned  and  enjoys  the  respect  of  all  good 
people  without  reference  to  creed.  The  work  of  the  organization  is  one  peculiar 
to  itself,  and  everybody  interested  in  the  elevation  of  the  fallen  must  wish  God¬ 
speed  to  the  Salvation  Army. 

Believe  me  with  great  respect, 

Yours  sincerely, 

W.  McK  inlev. 

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QUEEN  VICTORIA  TO  MRS.  CATHERINE  BOOTH. 

“.  .  .  Her  Majesty  learns  with  much  satisfaction  that  you  have,  with  other 

members  of  your  society,  been  successful  in  your  effort  to  win  thousands  to  the 
ways  of  temperance,  virtue  and  religion.” 


M.  RUCHONNET,  late  President  of  the  Swiss  Federation, 

Said  in  the  Swiss  Chamber,  after  a  speaker  had  poured  forth  a  stream  of  false 
accusations  against  the  Army:  “All  of  us,  whatever  be  the  shades  of  our  religious 
opinions,  who  honor  the  figure  of  Christ,  must  remember  that  the  same  accusa¬ 
tions  were  launched  against  Him  as  against  the  Salvation  Army,  and  the  populace 

was  hounded  on  against  Him  by  exactly  the  same  process  as  M. - has  just 

adopted  against  the  Salvationists.” 

THE  EARL  OF  ELGIN  AND  KINCARDINE,  P.C.,  G.M.S.I.,  G.M.I.E.,  Viceroy  of  India. 

“The  principles  upon  which  the  members  of  your  Indian  Salvation  Army 
base  their  efforts  appear  calculated  to  attain  the  ends  you  have  in  view.” 


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THE  EARL  OF  ABERDEEN,  Governor-General  of  Canada,  EARL  COMPTON,  M.P.,  and 
the  EARL  OF  DVSART.  together  with  other  leading  gentlemen,  issued 
the  following  public  appeal  through  the  English  newspapers  : 

“From  personal  witness  or  credible  report  of  wliat  General  Booth  has  done 
with  the  funds  intrusted  to  him  for  the  Social  Scheme,  which  he  laid  before  the 
country  eighteen  months  ago,  we  think  that  it  would  be  a  serious  evil  if  the  great 
task  which  he  has  undertaken  should  be  crippled  by  lack  of  help  during  the  next 
few  years.  We,  therefore,  venture  to  recommend  his  work  to  the  generous 
support  of  all  who  feel  the  necessity  for  some  serious  and  concentrated  effort  to 
grapple  with  the  needs  of  the  most  wretched  and  destitute,  who  have  so  long 
been  the  despair  alike  of  our  legislation  and  our  philanthropy/’ 

This  letter  is  signed  by  the  following  ladies  and  gentlemen 


The  Earl  of  Aberdeen  (Governor- 
General  of  Canada). 

Earl  Compton,  M.P. 

The  Earl  of  Dysart. 

The  Right  Hon.  Sir  Henry  H. 
Fowler,  M.P.,  late  Secretary  of 
State  for  India). 

H.  Labouchere,  Esq  ,  M.P. 

Samuel  Smith,  Esq.,  M.P. 

Percy  William  Bunting,  Esq. 

Mrs.  Josephine  Butler. 


The  Very  Rev.  Dean  Farrar. 

The  Rev.  H.  R.  Haweis. 

Tom  Mann,  Esq.  (Secretary  for  the 
Independent  Labor  Party). 

The  Rev.  Joseph  Parker,  D.D. 
Francis  Peek,  Esq. 

Lady  Henry  Somerset. 

W.  T.  Stead,  Esq.  (Editor  of  The 
Review  of  Reviews). 

The  Rev.  Alexander  Whyte,  D.D. 


THE  RIGHT  HON.  W.  E.  GLADSTONE,  late  Prime  Minister  of  England. 

The  Right  Hon.  W.  E.  Gladstone,  Ex-Prime  Minister  of  England,  writes  from 
Hawarden  Castle,  under  date  of  January  2,  1897,  referring  to  a  recent  interview 
with  General  Booth  as  “the  very  remarkable  and  interesting  circumstances  which 
you  were  good  enough  to  lay  before  me.  Apart  from  the  formation  of  such 
opinions,  I  had  useful  lessons  to  learn  from  the  reception  of  such  a  communi¬ 
cation.  It  helps  me  to  look  out  upon  the  wide  world  and  reflect  with  reverence 
upon  the  singular  diversity  of  the  instruments  which  are  in  operation  for 
recovering  mankind,  according  to  the  sense  of  those  who  use  them,  from  their 
condition  of  sin  and  misery;  and  encourages  hearty  good-will  toward  all  that, 
under  whatever  name,  is  done  with  a  genuine  purpose  to  promote  the  work  of 
God  in  the  world.” 


MISS  FRANCES  E.  WILLARD,  President  of  the  World’s  W.C.T.U. 

“I  am  so  much  of  a  believer  in  the  Salvation  Army,  and  rejoice  so  greatly  in 
what  you  are  doing,  that  I  send  these  words  out  of  a  fervent  heart.  While 
others  are  asleep  on  the  brink  of  a  great  crisis,  you  are  wide  awake,  alert  and 
helpful,  While  others  speak  about  reaching  the  masses,  you  have  actually  taken 
hold  with  warm,  kind  hands.  While  others  propose  an  army,  yours  is  in  the 


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field,  and  in  full  face  of  the  enemy.  It  is  time  this  great  object  lesson  is  set  before 
our  eyes.  It  has  come,  like  all  of  God’s  wonderful  ambassadors  from  Heaven,  just 
when  we  could  in  safety  wait  no  longer.” 

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DR.  JOSEPH  COOK,  Boston,  Mass. 

.  ‘"The  Salvation  Army  is  immensely  needed  as  a  remedy  for  the  ‘Starvation 
Army.’  More  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  of  continual  spiritual,  industrial,  and 
financial  success  prove  the  wisdom  of  General  Booth’s  plans  for  the  poor.  Whom 
God  crowns,  let  no  man  try  to  discrown,  The  Salvation  Army  is  a  divine  drag¬ 
net  for  the  dregs  of  humanity.  Among  the  sands  drawn  up  from  the  bottom  of 
the  sea  have  already  been  found  many  pearls  of  great  price.” 


THE  HON.  CHA'  NCEY  M.  DEPEW,  LL.D.,  President  of  the  N.Y.C.R.R. 

“Now,  I  long  since  passed  the  period  where  I  criticized  the  means  by  which 
people  are  influenced,  their  minds  reached  or  their  consciences  stirred,  so  long  as 
no  law,  moral  or  otherwise,  is  violated.  If  the  means  accomplish  the  result,  the 
means  are  blessed  by  Almighty  God.  So  I  come  back  to  my  conclusion,  that  we 
are  to  take  human  nature  in  its  many  phases,  and  there  are  certain  phases 
which  had  not  been  reached  for  eighteen  hundred  years  until  General  Booth 
pressed  the  button,  and  when  he  pressed  the  button  12,000  officers  and  millions 
of  followers  did  the  rest. 

“Far  be  it  for  me  to  say  a  word  against  the  churches  and  their  work,  but  you 
know,  and  I  know,  that  the  churches  do  not  reach  the  slums,  that  there  are 
large  portions  of  humanity  who  have  no  guardian  but  the  police,  and  no  home 
but  the  cell. 

“It  is  because  of  the  great  mission  work  which  you.  General  Booth,  have 
performed  that  I  am  here  to-night.  You  have  gone  out  into  those  waste  places 
and  carried  on  a  work  as  dangerous  and  more  distressing  than  that  of  the  mission¬ 
ary  in  Central  Africa. 

“You  have  gone  into  the  Central  Africa  of  these  great  cities  and  placed  them 
upon  a  plane  of  civilization  and  good  citizenship.” 

THE  EARL  OF  ONSLOW  (then  Governor  of  New  Zealand,  now  Under  Secretary  of  State 

for  India,)  in  addressing  a  public  meeting,  said: 

“If  any  man  deserves  a  vote  of  thanks,  General  Booth  deserves  it.  .  .  . 

General  Booth,  if  his  scheme  should  prove  a  success,  will  earn  not  only  your 
thanks,  but  the  thanks  of  the  three  millions  of  unfortunate  people  in  the  country 
from  which  we  all  are  sprung;  and  he  will  earn,  above  all,  that  which  he  values 
more  than  anything  else — he  will  eapi  the  approval  of  his  God.” 

LORD  CARRINGTON,  G.C.M.G.,  late  Lord  Chamberlain. 

“I  feel  sure  that  every  one  must  wish  you  success  in  your  efforts  on  behalf  of 
the  poor  and  fallen,  whose  condition  and  circumstances  are  so  pitiful.” 


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PRINCE  GALUZIN,  of  Russia. 

“As  to  the  Social  branch  of  the  work,  I  have  only  one  tiling:  to  say  to  the 
unbelieving;  that  is,  come  and  see,  and  you  will  be  conquered.  You  will  be 
conquered  by  being  convinced  that  you  ought  to  help  the  work;  for  to  see  it  is  to 
love  it,  and  to  love  it  is  to  help  it.” 

THE  LATE  EARL  CAIRNS. 

“What  I  would  impress  upon  you  and  those  listening  to  the  reports,  which, 
either  from  mistakes,  or  ignorance,  or  prejudice,  are  circulated  about  the  pro¬ 
ceedings  of  the  Salvation  Army,  is,  don’t  believe  them.  Go  and  see  for  yourself 
or  inquire  in  any  case,  and  ask  for  an  explanation,  and  I  feel  sure  you  will  get  it. 
Let  us  then,  having  got  this  great  agency  to  do  the  work  that  is  so  much  needed 
to  be  done,  not  merely  go  and  say,  ‘Yes,  it  is  all  very  interesting,  and  no  doubt 
much  good  is  being  done;’  but  let  us  join  to  lend  a  helping  hand  to  this  great 
movement.  Let  us,  if  we  think  it  is  doing  God’s  work,  be  firm  and  help  it  for¬ 
ward;  and  let  us  honestly  and  consistently  give  it  such  assistance  as  we  have  it  in 
our  power  to  give.” 

THE  EARL  OF  JERSEY,  then  Governor  of  New  South  Wales. 

“.  .  .  It  is  because  I  believe  that  a  work  like  this — even  though  I  may  not 

wear  a  red  jersey — is  doing  a  great  deal  of  good  in  the  world,  that  I  have  come 
here  to  support  it.  .  .  . 

“And  I  think  I  do  not  mistake,  General  Booth,  your  intentions  and  your 
hopes  when  I  say  that  you  are  not  working  alone  for  London,  or  England,  or 
Australia,  but  that  you  are  working  for  the  whole  world.” 

EARL  FORTESCUE  referred  to  the  Salvation  Army  in  the  following  terms  in  the  House 

of  Lords: 

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“The  movement  seems  beyond  all  reasonable  doubt  to  have  a  purifying  effect 
on  many  who  were  previously  foul  and  helpless  in  their  degradation.” 

LORD  BRASSEY,  Governor  of  Victoria,  Australia. 

“I  esteem  it  a  great  privilege  to  have  the  opportunity  of  expressing,  in  a  few 
words,  my  sympathy  with  the  work  in  which  General  Booth  and  those  who  are 
with  him,  are  engaged.” 

THE  MAR7HI0NESS  OF  RIPON. 

“Your  book  revives  the  hopes  of  my  youth,  and  I  trust  that  those  who  know 
from  experience  the  terrible  suffering  in  the  middle  of  which  they  are  living  and 
their  inability  to  relieve  it,  and  those  who,  perhaps,  through  reading  your 
book,  for  the  first  time  realize  it,  will  unite  in  helping  you  to  carry  on  work  which 
has  already  borne  such  good  fruit,  and  give  you  the  means  to  make  fresh  experi¬ 
ments  on  the  same  lines.” 


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LADY  HENRY  SOMERSET. 

“I  am  glad  to  say  again,  as  I  have  often  said,  that  no  engine  power  in  our 
day  seems  to  me  to  be  pointed  with  more  directness  and  effect  against  the  bat¬ 
teries  of  evil  than  the  Salvation  Army,  led  by  its  intrepid  and  devoted  General,  to 
whom,  on  the  occasion  of  his  jubilee  I  desire  to  send  the  assurance  of  my  highest 
esteem,  admiration  and  good-will  in  the  name  of  Christ  and  humanity.” 

THE  RIGHT  HON.  SIR  WILLIAM  V.  HARCOURT,  M.P.,  late  Chancellor  of  The 

Exchequer. 

“You  are  quite  right  in  supposing  that  I  should  be  glad  to  seize  the  oppcr 
tunity  of  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  year  of  General  Booth’s  service  in  the 
cause  of  humanity  to  express  my  sympathy  with  and  admiration  of  the  noble  and 
successful  work  which  he  has  done  for  the  redemption  of  the  poor  and  the  miser 
able  from  the  burden  of  poverty  and  vice.  .  .  .  He  has  earned  a  high  place 

among  the  benefactors  of  his  fellow  men.” 

SIR  JOHN  RIGBY,  Q  C.,  M.P.,  the  Attorney-General,  now  Lord  Justice  of  Appeal. 

“I  have  had  no  small  insight  during  some  years  into  the  weightier  matters 
connected  with  the  government  and  policy  of  the  Salvation  Army  and  the  Darkest 
England  Scheme. 

“  .  .  .  In  all  that  I  have  seen  of  the  conduct  of  the  vast  affairs  under¬ 

taken  by  them,  they  have,  in  my  judgment,  shown  not  only  zeal,  but  also  a  sober 
and  steady  determination  to  administer  their  funds  in  a  strictly  legal  and  business¬ 
like  manner.” 

SIR  B.  WALTER  FOSTER. 

“I  have  always  felt  the  greatest  interest  in  the  Darkest  England  Social 
Scheme,  and  wrote  one  of  the  earliest  articles  on  General  Booth’s  book.  All  I 
have  learned  since  about  the  scheme  confirms  the  favorable  opinion  I  then  formed 
of  it.” 

SIR  HENRY  H.  FOWLER  (late  Secretary  of  State  for  India),  speaking  in  the  House 

of  Commons,  said : 

“Honorable  members  may  not  all  agree  with  the  machinery  of  the  Salvation 
Army,  but  no  one  will  deny  that  it  has  done  a  good  and  noble  work  in  con¬ 
fronting  vice  and  intemperance  and  crime  in  its  most  loathsome  shape.  .  .  . 

These  people  are  endeavoring  to  grapple  with  problems  of  the  greatest  gravity, 
and  they  are  doing  this  by  means  of  an  organization  which  no  other  religious 
body  possesses  or  makes  use  of.” 

SIR  EDWARD  CLARKE  (then  the  Solicitor-General),  speaking  in  Parliament,  said  : 

“I  do  not  wish  to  disavow  the  sympathy  which  I  feel  with  that  great  organ¬ 
ization  in  the  good  work  which  it  has  been  doing  in  this  country.  .  .  .  It  is  no 

sort  of  nuisance  to  anybody,  and  the  Salvation  Army  is  doing  its  work  without 
molestation  in  its  own  way.” 


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In  a  Letter  to  General  Booth,  SIR  EDWARD  CLARKE  also  said: 

“Your  book,  “In  Darkest  England,”  has  greatly  interested  me,  and  points 
out,  in  my  belief,  the  best  means  of  dealing  with  the  misery  and  crime  which  defile 
and  disgrace  the  civilization  of  oar  land.  I  have  entire  confidence  in  your  wise 
and  faithful  stewardship  of  any  fund  which  may  be  subscribed,  and  I  inclose  a 
check  for  £50  as  my  contribution  toward  the  good  work.” 

SIR  HENRY  CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN,  late  Secretary  of  State  for  War. 

“I  can  assure  you  no  one  has  a  higher  opinion  than  I  of  the  forces  brought 
into  play  by  the  Salvation  Army.  ...  I  start,  therefore,  with  a  firm  prejudice 
in  favor  of  Mr.  Booth,  his  powers  and  his  methods.” 

SIR  ROBERT  THORBURN,  ex-Premier  of  Newfoundland. 

“I  hope  you  have  all  learned  to  appreciate  the  good  work  done  by  the  Army 
all  the  world  over.” 

SIR  JOHN  GORST,  Q.C.,  M.P.,  Vice-President  of  the  Council  of  Education. 

“I  visited  last  week  your  institutions  in  London  for  dealing  with  the  unem¬ 
ployed,  and  your  Farm  Colony  at  Hadleigh.  ...  It  seems  to  me  that  the 
experiment  you  are  trying  has,  so  far  as  it  has  gone,  yielded  results  of  a  most 
encouraging  character,  and  it  would  be  a  national  misfortune  if  want  of  funds 
should  prevent  it  being  carried  out  to  the  end.” 

SIR  SAMUEL  GRIFFITHS,  formerly  Prime  Minister  of  Queensland. 

“I  believe  that  the  work  General  Booth  and  his  associates  in  Great  Britain 
have  undertaken,  in  regard  to  the  class  referred  to,  is  the  most  beneficial  which 
has  been  undertaken  in  the  history  of  the  world.” 

SIR  THOMAS  MclLWRAITH,  late  Prime  Minister  of  Queensland. 

“It  would  be  impossible  for  anyone,  however  callous  and  unthinking,  to 
underestimate  the  value  of  the  Social  work  which  is  being  performed  by  the  Sal¬ 
vation  Army  through  the  medium  of  its  Farm  Colony.  It  is  not  by  any  means 
the  first  time  that  the  value  of  this  work  has  come  under  my  notice,  for  I  have 
had  many  years’  experienced  it  in  Queensland  and  in  other  of  the  Australian 
colonies.” 


SIR  JOHN  MADDEN,  Acting  Governor,  Australia. 

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“No  man  and  no  office  could  lose  dignity  by  lending  a  hand  to  help  on  such  a 
work  and  such  a  people.  Far  more  than  that  no  man  and  no  office  could  be  other 
than  increased  in  dignity  by  taking  upon  himself  such  a  duty.” 

SIR  J  GORDON  SPRIGG,  formerly  Premier  of  Cape  Colony. 

“General  Booth,  the  head  of  the  most  wonderful  and  powerful  organization 
the  world  has  ever  produced.” 


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SIR  MATTHEW  DAVIS,  Speaker  of  the  Legislative  Assembly,  Victoria. 

“No  one  writing  the  history  of  the  present  could  do  so  without  giving  to 
General  Booth  a  prominent  place  in  its  pages.  His  scheme  for  ameliorating  the 
poor  was  entitled  to  the  best  wishes  of  the  whole  world.” 

SIR  HENRY  PARKES,  late  Premier  of  New  South  Wales. 

“We  are  standing  in  the  presence  of  a  mighty  builder  in  the  moral  world. 
The  Prussian  statesman  who  built  up  the  German  empire,  built  it,  to  use  his  own 
words,  of  ‘destructive  iron  and  cruelly  shed  blood,’  but  a  mightier  than  he — a 
mightier  than  the  great  Bismarck — has  stirred  our  world  from  one  end  to  the 
other  with  no  other  weapon,  with  no  other  element  of  power  than  the  simple 
beauty  of  our  common  religion.” 

THE  LATE  RIGHT  HON.  JOHN  BRIGHT.  M.P. 

“I  suspect  that  your  good  work  will  not  suffer  materially  from  the 
ill-treatment  you  are  meeting  with.  The  people  who  mob  you  would  doubtless 
have  mobbed  the  apostles.” 

HENRY  LABOUCHERF,  Esq.,  M.P.,  and  Editor  of  “Truth.” 

“I  lionestlv  trust  that  General  Booth  will  get  his  money  and  be  enabled  to  try 
his  experiment.  His  Army  is  precisely  the  sort  of  material  that  can  be  used  to 
give  the  scheme  a  fair  trial.  .  .  .  By  all  means  let  it  be  tried;  I  wish  it  success.” 

THE  RIGHT  HON.  HERBERT  GLADSTONE,  M.P.,  late  Under-Secretary  of  State  for  the 

Home  Department. 

“Surely  everybody  in  the  country  must  sympathize  with,  at  any  rate,  much 
of  the  work  of  the  Salvation  Army,  and  in  particular  there  are  none  who  can  have 
any  doubt  about  the  excellence  of  the  work  it  does  in  connection  with  discharged 
prisoners.  ...  I  heartily  wish  you  God-speed  in  your  work.  It  has  given 
me  great  pleasure  to  come  amongst  you  in  this  Home  and  see  the  practical  side 
of  your  work.” 

W.  S.  CAINE,  Esq.,  M.P. 

“I  have  seen  the  Army  at  work  in  France,  Switzerland,  Canada,  the  United 
States  and  India,  as  well  as  at  home,  and  every  fresh  experience  enhances  the 
deep  respect,  nay,  reverence  I  feel  for  the  heroic  men  and  women.  .  .  . 

“Of  your  work  amongst  the  peoples  of  our  vast  dependency,  India,  I  have 
often  written  and  spoken.  It  is  the  best  and  most  apostolic  work  now  to  be 
found  upon  the  face  of  the  earth.” 

SYDNEY  BUXTON,  Esq  ,  M.P.,  late  Under-Secretary  for  the  Colonies. 

Ail  those  who  desire  the  alleviation  of  misery  and  desire  to  find  openings  and 
opportunities  for  those  who  especially  require  befriending,  have  watched  your 
attempts  and  your  experiments  in  those  directions  with  interest  and  hope.” 


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MILES  MclNNES,  Esq:,  M.P. 

“Everywhere  Englishmen  and  the  countrymen  of  other  nations  admire  the 
courage  and  independence,  acknowledge  the  self-sacrifice,  and  appreciate  the 
self  denial  of  those  who  really  know  what  the  work  of  the  Army  is.” 

THE  LATE  SAMUEL  MORLEY,  Esq,,  M.P. 

“I  read  always  with  pleasure  of  your  work,  which  I  believe  to  be  genuine 
and  true.” 


W.  T.  STEAD,  Esq.,  Editor  of  the  Review  of  Reviews. 

.  .  A  journalistic  career  of  twenty  years  has  brought  me  into  close 

quarters  with  an  immense  number  of  the  ablest  men  and  women  of  our  time,  and 
I  have  no  hesitation  whatever  in  saying  that,  in  the  whole  sweep  of  my  acquaint¬ 
ance,  I  have  not  met  more  than  half  a  dozen  men — British,  European  or 
American,  crowned  or  uncrowned,  prelates,  statesmen,  soldiers  or  workers — whom 
I  would  rank  as  the  superiors  in  force,  capacity  and  initiative  with  General 
Booth,  Mrs.  Booth  and  their  eldest  son.  Whether  or  not  General  Booth  be,  as 
Lord  Wolseley  declared,  the  greatest  organizing  genius  of  our  time,  he  and  his 
family  constitute  the  most  remarkable  group  of  men  and  women  that  I  know.” 

ARNOLD  WHITE,  Esq.,  (“Fortnightly  Review.”) 

“As  an  onlooker  who  has  watched  the  Salvation  Army  for  many  years  in 
various  parts  of  the  world,  I  am  proud  to  do  what  a  sinner  can — as  a  brother  from 
the  outside,  rather  than  as  a  pillar  from  within — to  support  the  great  edifice 
which  General  Booth  and  his  family  have  constructed.” 

MR.  JUSTICE  HAWKINS, 

“I  will  give  the  Salvation  Army  the  credit  of  being  most  honest  and  sincere  in 
the  conduct  of  their  religious  services.  No  incident  to  the  contrary  can  be 
adduced  against  them.” 

THE  HON.  J.  B.  PATTERSON,  formerly  Premier  of  Victoria,  Australia. 

“As  the  head  of  the  Government,  and  having  been  connected  with  many 
Governments,  I  have  frequently  had  occasion  to  recognize  and  acknowledge  with 
gratitude  the  support  and  the  admirable  assistance  that  the  Salvation  Army  has 
rendered  to  the  distressed.” 

CHIEF  JUSTICE  WAY,  Lieut.-Governor  of  South  Australia. 

“The  conviction  which  has  come  to  my  mind  is,  that  no  Parliament,  no  royal 
commission,  no  judicial  bench,  no  democratic  club,  no  writer  for  the  press  and  no 
writer  of  books  has  ever  presented  to  the  world  a  finer  scheme  of  social  regenera¬ 
tion  than  is  contained  in  that  noble  book  of  General  Booth’s. 


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“I  have  conferred  with  my  friend  Mr.  Boothby,  the  sheriff  of  South  Australia, 
who  has  had  forty  years’  experience  in  prison  work,  and  who  is  the  highest 
authority  on  that  subject  on  this  side  of  the  line,  and  he  has  told  me  that  the 
proud  position  the  colony  holds  tohlay,  of  being  freer  from  crime  than  any  other 
country  on  the  face  of  the  earth,  was  largely  due  to  the  work  done  by  the  officers 
of  the  Salvation  Army.” 

THE  HON.  JOHN  BALLANCE,  Premier  of  New  Zealand. 

“I  am  prepared,  not  only  to  accept  the  Gfeneral’s  scheme,  but  to  use  my  influ¬ 
ence  in  getting  an  experiment  tested  in  New  Zealand.” 

THE  HON.  MR.  JUSTICE  BUCHANAN,  Australia. 

“Of  the  many  distinguished  visitors  to  our  shores  of  late  years,  the  most  re¬ 
markable,  I  venture  to  say,  as  well  as  the  most  philanthropic,  is  Mr.  William 
Booth,  the  General  of  the  Salvation  Army.” 

THE  HON.  GRAHAM  BERRY,  The  Speaker  ot  Victoria,  Australia. 

“.  .  .1  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  Army  is  exercising  a  great 

influence  for  good.  .  .  .  All  thinking  men  should  support  the  movement,  and, 

for  my  part,  I  wish  it  God  speed.  The  Army  will,  while  working  on  the  present 
lines,  always  have  my  support.” 

ALDERMAN  MANNING,  Mayor  of  Sydney. 

“I  feel  from  the  bottom  of  my  heart  that  he  (the  General)  has  given  me  a 
great  lesson,  which  will  remain  in  my  mind  as  long  as  life  is  in  me.’ 

HON.  HORACE  TOZER. 

“There  are  many  heroes  of  the  nineteenth  century,  but  none  more  distin¬ 
guished  than  the  one  who  is  our  'guest  to-night  (General  Booth).  I  hope  I  may 
live  to  see  the  scheme  the  General  has  instituted  accomplished  in  Australia.  I 
also  welcome  him  who  has  come  in  the  cause  of  philanthropy  in  the  name  of  the 
Government.” 


THE  MAYOR  OF  BRISBANE. 

“Had  it  been  the  Queen  instead  of  General  Booth  who  was  received  the  pre 
vious  night,  she  could  not  have  been  more  loyally  welcomed.  I  extend  a  most 
hearty  and  cordial  reception  and  wish  that  God  may  bless  you  and  your  Army.” 

T.  W.  GOODWIN,  Esq,,  ex-Mayor  of  Kimberley,  Africa. 

He  said  General  Booth’s  name  had  become  a  household  word  throughout  the 
civilized  world.  .  .  *  An  idea  which,  if  carried  out  successfully,  would  be¬ 
come  a  scheme  for  the  regeneration  of  mankind.  .  .  . 


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MR.  BRICE  SMITH,  Colonial  Treasurer,  New  South  Wales. 

“General  Booth  has  taken  for  his  church  the  blue  sky  and  the  world.  .  .  . 

I  am  heart  and  soul  with  General  Booth  in  this  great  movement  to  resuscitate 
from  want  and  to  pull  from  their  despondency  those  who  in  the  struggle  for 
existence  have  been  cast  ashore.” 

THE  HON.  J.  DONALDSON,  M  P.,  ex-Colonial  Secretary,  Australia. 

“I  can  bear  testimony  to  the  very  great  work  done  during  the  last  few  years 
in  Australia.  .  .  .  The  Army  is  on  the  right  track  and  reaches  classes  of  people 

frequently  left  out  or  not  seen  by  the  churches.” 

THE  HON.  JAMES  CAMPBELL,  Australia. 

“I  admire  the  Army  for  its  courage  and  for  manliness  in  all  its  ideas.” 


THE  CHIEF  COMMISSIONER  OF  POLICE,  Melbourne. 

“I  am  of  the  opinion  that  the  Prison-Gate  Brigade  succeeds  in  reaching  a 
large  class  of  unfortunates  whose  depravity  defies  the  ordinary  measures  of  the 
charitably  and  humanely  disposed.” 


THE  SECRETARY  OF  THE  GOVERNMENT  REFORMATION  AND  INDUSTRIAL 

DEPARTMENT. 

“I  have  much  pleasure  in  stating,  in  reply  to  the  Under  Secretary’s  inquiry, 
that  this  Department  has  in  many  instances  been  materially  assisted  in  its  work 
of  protection  and  reclamation  by  the  exertions  of  the  several  branches  of  the  Sal¬ 
vation  Army  organization.  .  .  .” 

MR.  D.  ARCHIBALD,  Staff  Inspector  of  Police,  Toronto. 

_  _  > 

“The  usefulness  of  this  institution  has  been  officially  recognized  in  Toronto  by 

being  placed  on  the  list  of  institutions  to  which  aid  has  been  granted  by  the  City 
Council. 

“The  Salvation  Army  could  take  a  great  share  of  the  credit  for  the  present 
moral  position  of  the  city.  .  .  .  The  Mayor  had  been  enabled  to  reduce  the 

staff  of  the  police  force  at  the  beginning  of  the  year,  which  fact  could  be  traced 
largelyMo'the^beneficiaPresults  of  the  operations  of  the  Salvation  Army.  .  .  .” 

THE  HON.  R.  J.  FLEMING,  Mayor  of  Toronto. 

“I  am  pleased  to  recognize  that  a  good  share  of  the  present  satisfactory  con¬ 
dition  of  things  in  the  Empire  City  is  due  to  the  influence  of  the  Salvation  Army, 
and  I  have  always  been  ready  to  admit  it.  .  .  .” 


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THE  HON.  J.  E.  ROSE-INNES,  Attorney-General,  South  Africa. 

“The  Salvation  Army  occupied  the  ground  alone,  in  being  the  only  organiz¬ 
ation  in  the  Cape  Colony  which  has  ever  attempted  to  grapple  with  the  question. 

.  .  .  The  Army  has  been  granted  permission  to  go  into  all  the  jails  to  hold 

services.  .  .  .  The  prison  regulations  have  not  been  broken,  the  work  of  other 

religious  organizations  has  not  been  interfered  with,  and  we  have  heard  of  many 
cases  where  the  Army  has  done  great  good. 

“In  support  of  this  work  Parliament  voted  £100 — I  am  ashamed  to  mention 
how  small  the  amount  is  —  but  the  Government  is  to  be  asked  to  make 
it  £150.” 


LADY  HAVELOCK,  Ceylon. 

“I  have  been  much  interested  and  pleased  with  what  I  have  seen  in  the  Home 
end  I  think  that  the  Rescue  Work  is  a  very  good  one.” 


RIGHT  REV.  DR.  M00RH0USE,  Bishop  of  Manchester.  (Late  Bishop  of  Melbourne, 

Australia.) 

“Very  few  men  could  hope  to  carry  it  out  successfully,  but  I  think  you  may 
for  the  following  reasons:  1.  You  have  proved  that  you  can  teach  the  waifs  and 
strays  to  work.  2.  You  can  surround  them  with  the  authority,  the  sympathy  and 
help  of  men  of  their  own  class,  of  firm  Christian  principle.  3.  You  make  a  radical 
change  of  their  character  an  essential  condition  of  your  scheme,  and  have  again 
proved  that  in  many  cases  religious  means,  which  I  confess  I  could  not  use  myself, 
are  effective  to  that  end.  4.  You  have  the  assistance  of  a  large  and  enthusiastic 
staff  of  officers  stationed  in  various  parts  of  the  world,  and  working  for 
Christ's  sake,  with  little  more  than  bare  subsistence  provided  from  your 
funds. 

“Having  this  belief,  I  feel  myself  called  upon  to  help  you.  May  God  bless  you 
for  the  wise  and  noble  effort  you  are  making,  and  spare  you  long  enough  to  the 
poor  waifs  whom,  for  Christ’s  sake,  you  love  to  rescue — many,  if  not  all  of  them — 
from  their  terrible  physical  and  spiritual  destruction.” 


THE  VERY  REV.  DEAN  FARRAR,  London,  England. 

“For  myself  I  can  only  say  that  all  the  babbling  of  idle  censure  which  has 
rebuked  me  (in  taking  a  bold  stand  for  the  Army)  is  absolutely  insignificant  in 
comparison  with  that  voice  of  disapproval  which  would  have  filled  my  conscience 
if  I  had  shrunk  from  rendering  my  insignificant  aid  to  an  effort  which  (the  Sal¬ 
vation  Army  Social  Work),  if  it  fulfills  our  hopes,  will  inaugurate  an  epoch  of 
social  amelioration  hardly  less  important  in  its  sphere  than  that  religious  awaken- 
ment  which  is  connected  with  the  names  of  John  Wesley  and  George  White- 
field.” 


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BISHOP  VINCENT,  M.  E.  Church,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

“I  have  read  with  lively  and  profound  interest  ‘In  Darkest  England.’  I  am 
sure  that  your  movement  as  a  whole  is  doing  a  world  .of  good  to  the  world.  How 
could.I  do'otherwise  .than  wish  it  well?  I  never  see  a  little  band  of  the  Army 
marching  with  drum,  songs  and  '.banners  through  the  streets  that  I  do  not  lift  a 
silent  prayer  to  Heaven  for  them.” 


REV.  HENRY  WILSON,  D.D.,  Chairman  of  Board  of  Managers,  International  Missionary 

Alliance,  New  York. 

“The  Salvation  Army!  What  is  it?  God’s  last  and  loudest  call  to  a  lost 
world  to  repent  and  come  to  its  Saviour.  Saved  through  it  myself,  eleven  years 
ago;  closely  connected  with  it  ever  since;  intimately  acquainted  with  its  workings 
and  its  workers  in  nearly  all  parts  of  Canada,  the  United  States  and  England; 
having  seen  the  vilest  and  most  hopeless  won  to  Jesus  through  it  and  kept  by  the 
power  of  God  to  this  hour;  believing  in  it  more  thoroughly  than  ever,  I  praise 
God  daily  for  the  dear  Army,  and  pray  Him  to  make  it  more  than  ever  His  own 
instrument  for  saving  souls,  a  praise  in  the  earth,  and  in  Heaven  an  everlasting 
trophy  of  His  love  and  power.” 

REV.  C.  H.  YATMAN,  Ocean  Grove,  N.  J. 

“I  have  watched  with  eager  delight  the  work  of  General  Booth  in  all  parts  of 
the  world,  and  especially  so  in  America.  The  love,  loyalty,  and  devotion  of  the 
officers  to  the  work  of  saving  folk  from  sin  by  the  Saviour  is  one  that  sets  two 
worlds  aglow  with  delight — Earth  and  Heaven. 

“The  way  it  sets  at  work  its  converts,  singing,  preaching  (in  the  true  sense 
of  the  Netv  Testament)  and  praying,  is  worth  the  study  of  the  Christian  church 
philosopher.  That  object-lesson  alone  is  worth  the  cost  of  your  work,  I  am  not 
ignorant  of  your  trials,  but,  sir,  I  believe  them  to  be  your  greatest  triumphs, 
Great  victories  are  Avon  by  great  battles. 

“I  bid  you  God-speed  in  the  war.  Would  that  some  men  of  great  wealth 
might  arise  and  help  you  extend  your  plans  ten  fold!” 


